My first was a New Home 444. I bought it from a traveling salesman who came by when I was 14. I was babysitting and saving up my money for something, I just didn't know what. The machine I think was $100 and I paid $50 down and $10 per month. She is now mounted in my sewing room in a long counter top next to my Babylock Ellegante 2 and is my 'go to' work horse. When I was in highschool I took home ec. and while there they got new machines and new tables. I bought my sewing table / cabinet for $20 and I still have it too. The New Home was in the cabinet until a 2008 when I got back into sewing. It wasn't long before I converted a bedroom into a sewing room and now it sits all decked out with notions and a little lamp.